Quotes About Character

'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.

Improv is such a huge part of my background, and a huge part of character discovery is really being inside the character and trying to think through them without the limitations of the script.

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

In fact, I just play a glamour doll in 'Vijayendra Varma,' for the first time in my career.

In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

Bray Wyatt just as Bray Wyatt in the beginning with those promos that he used to do - the 'Cape Fear'-esque character was pretty scary to me.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.

In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.

In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

I once gave a character in a novel my inability to get past the same point in any work of philosophy: that moment when seeing is suddenly occluded and you know you can go no further.

Miranda, my character, cannot sing, cannot act, and is really inappropriate.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.